Ramblings about South Asian Women [in support of the South Asian Literature Festival]
I grew up in a suburb of London where if you weren’t Jewish you were Indian, if you classed yourself as ‘local’ there was always…
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Authors rule, poets drool, Amazon owns them all: The Book Power 100
Friday’s announcement of this year’s Guardian and Observer Book Power 100 (no relation) told largely the same story as has been repeated over and over…
5 takeaways from Publishing Next, Goa
Earlier this month the great and the good of the Indian publishing industry descended on Goa for Publishing Next, a conference designed to get people…
BookMachine Weekly BookWrap: publishing stories from around the web
There’s no question that this week’s top story is Canongate’s explanation of Why we are publishing Julian Assange’s (unauthorised) autobiography. Yes, a juicy tale this…
#BMhour: selected highlights
Last night via Twitter, BookMachine held its first #BMhour, a chance for anyone interested in publishing to spend an hour talking to each other on…
The Art of Bundling Short Stories
Felice Howden has been writing short stories for online publications for several years. Here she talks about the re-emergence of the short story. In the…
#BMhour tonight at 18.30 GMT
This evening (Wednesday) at 18.30 GMT we are holding our very first on-line #BMhour. We have never done this before and really hope you can join…
Guardian encourages readers to swap books, potentially litter
The chances of anyone reading this not knowing by now may have passed slim-to-none some time ago, but just in case, consider this a public…
Just another post about The Future of Publishing? [EVENT]
It’s confession time. Hands up if you live outside of London and moan that ‘all the good stuff’ happens in London? I know you’re out there,…
BookMachine Weekly BookWrap: publishing stories from around the web
This week, the sad end of a former giant was chronicled in a Borders epilogue: ‘We were in perpetual crisis’; but this year hasn’t been…
Amazon, cackling over twitching corpse of book shops, now closes in on libraries
Having already cornered the market in sales of print books, e-books, and numerous formats as yet uninvented, probably, rumours abound this week that Amazon is…
5 Online Tools for Promoting Real-life Events
How do we organize our bi-monthly BookMachine tweetups alongside full time jobs? Well, doing this has only become possible in the last few years, and…
BookMachine regular has title shortlisted in the Not The Booker Prize
I run the independent publishing house Punked Books, which has just achieved the distinction of having one of its authors, Chris Morton, shortlisted for the…
‘Clubbing for grown-ups’: Book Slam, London’s literary nightclub [INTERVIEW]
Book Slam is London’s first / best / only literary nightclub. So, what does that mean exactly? We interviewed Elliott Jack, who promotes the…
BookMachine Weekly BookWrap: publishing stories from around the web
The standout news this week is that Amazon’s Kindle Tablet Is Very Real. I’ve Seen It, Played With It. Hmm. Keeping up with industry trends is…
